>More likely is that this environmental shock-horror story will drift out
>of people's minds within a few days, along with all the other panics
>that come along from time to time. The reason for that indifference is
>not apathy, but an intuitive sense that the sky is probably not falling
>down.
No, the polar ice caps are. It's no scoop that ice melts; it's something of a scoop that the poles are thawing.
Doug